ruinevil:It can't bring the bolt/bullet through a watermelon. Not even halfway.

That was only 1 stage. With all 4 stages it went straight through the watermelon. You can see it better on the tin can. Stage 1 just pinged the side of the can and dented it. All 4 stages put the bolt straight through both sides of the can.

scottydoesntknow:ruinevil: It can't bring the bolt/bullet through a watermelon. Not even halfway.

That was only 1 stage. With all 4 stages it went straight through the watermelon. You can see it better on the tin can. Stage 1 just pinged the side of the can and dented it. All 4 stages put the bolt straight through both sides of the can.

The can showed some tumbling problems - needs something that will spin those slugs. And that was point blank range. Definately need to address that to get any kind of range on it.

That is a coil gun. A gauss gun is different. A coil gun uses coils to pull a projectile via magnetism. A gauss gun puts current through the projectile that causes a magnetic field between the two rails that pull the projectile. Guass guns don't have coils.

scottydoesntknow:ruinevil: It can't bring the bolt/bullet through a watermelon. Not even halfway.

That was only 1 stage. With all 4 stages it went straight through the watermelon. You can see it better on the tin can. Stage 1 just pinged the side of the can and dented it. All 4 stages put the bolt straight through both sides of the can.

No, it went straight through a slice of watermelon less than half the entire melon in thickness.

Waste of 400 volts, really. Just as well, though, given the trigger discipline he displayed at the beginning.

Meh, back when i was still in college I saw a box that had been built with an array of 50 stereo filtering capacitors like that. The rail gun they'd built would belch blue fire when you test fired the full bank, because it would flash-boil part of the aluminum slugs the thing shot.

Super_pope:Meh, back when i was still in college I saw a box that had been built with an array of 50 stereo filtering capacitors like that. The rail gun they'd built would belch blue fire when you test fired the full bank, because it would flash-boil part of the aluminum slugs the thing shot.

Want. Personally, I'd like to take the fireworks exchange from last week's stupid fraternity fight article, scale it up to railguns, and commence shell exchange. For science, of course.

nekulor:Super_pope: Meh, back when i was still in college I saw a box that had been built with an array of 50 stereo filtering capacitors like that. The rail gun they'd built would belch blue fire when you test fired the full bank, because it would flash-boil part of the aluminum slugs the thing shot.

Want. Personally, I'd like to take the fireworks exchange from last week's stupid fraternity fight article, scale it up to railguns, and commence shell exchange. For science, of course.

/Pike can't aim worth shiat.

If you had a real railgun, you wouldn't even need a shell. Any random trash would do, if the velocity was high enough.